Learn from my STUPIDITY: My tank has pretty well been on cruise control for a year and a half. 4 days ago though I had a near disaster. I made a DIY skimmate collector because we are about to go on a long road trip. It worked well until my skimmer over flowed one night and caused my ATO to pull 15-20 gals of fresh H2O as dirty tank water slowly leaked on my floor. I’m very fortunate I didn’t lose any livestock and that I was home and not on our trip. My salinity dropped down to 1.020. I slowly brought it back up and everything is fine. (Aside from my wife wanting to kill me as I shop vacuumed water from our carpet.) I ordered an AVAST Marine skimmate locker which I installed this evening. Don’t cheap out in this hobby it never pays....As a veteran hobbyist, I knew better.
Learn from my STUPIDITY: My tank has pretty well been on cruise control for a year and a half. 4 days ago though I had a near disaster. I made a DIY skimmate collector because we are about to go on a long road trip. It worked well until my skimmer over flowed one night and caused my ATO to pull 15-20 gals of fresh H2O as dirty tank water slowly leaked on my floor. I’m very fortunate I didn’t lose any livestock and that I was home and not on our trip. My salinity dropped down to 1.020. I slowly brought it back up and everything is fine. (Aside from my wife wanting to kill me as I shop vacuumed water from our carpet.) 
I ordered an AVAST Marine skimmate locker which I installed this evening. Don’t cheap out in this hobby it never pays....As a veteran hobbyist, I knew better.
